The Flags of the World/Index


 * A.
 * Aargau, flag of  116
 * "Acta Sanctorum," the  38
 * Admiral's flag, R.N.  56
 * Admiralty, flag of the  71, 72
 * Agincourt, battle of  106
 * Agincourt, flags at  5
 * Agnus Dei, as device on flag  22
 * Ailsa, flag of the yacht  73
 * Allan Line, flag of the  75
 * Allotment of code signals  138
 * Ambulance flag  117
 * Ancient Irish harp  33
 * Anchor as badge  63, 71, 87, 100, 114
 * Andrew, cross of St.  4, 35, 42, 43, 45, 53, 116
 * Andrew, St., of Scotland  37, 42, 44
 * Andrew, St., of Russia  103, 104
 * Andrew, St., order of  102
 * Anne, Standard of Queen  35
 * Annunciation on flag  4
 * Answering pennant  134
 * Antelope as a device  16
 * Antiquity, standards of  2
 * Antwerp, device of city of  111
 * Anvil as device on flag  7
 * Argentine Republic, flag of  124
 * Armada, defeat of the  3
 * Arms of Canada  81, 82
 * Arms of Washington  91
 * Army, flags of the  61
 * Army signalling  127, 128, 129
 * Arragon, arms of  111
 * Articles of War  56
 * Assaye, special flag for  65
 * Assyrian standards  2
 * Athene, owl of  2
 * Australian Steam Navigation Company's house flag  74
 * Austro-Hungarian flags 101, 102
 * Avondale flag  43
 * Awdeley, standard of Sir John  17


 * B.
 * Bacon on sea-power  84, 85
 * Baden, flag of  101
 * Badge  9, 13, 15, 21, 62, 66, 67, 83, 84, 117
 * Bahamas, Badge of the  84
 * Balmoral tartan  1
 * Banner, its nature  10
 * Banneroll, kind of flag  18
 * Bannockburn, battle of  44
 * Barbadoes, badge of  83
 * Barcelona, arms of  111
 * Bar, banner of Sir John de  11
 * Bardolph, banner of Sir Hugh  11
 * Basel, flag of city of  116
 * Bavaria, flag of  101, 119
 * Bayeux tapestry, flags represented in  19, 22
 * Bear as a device  1, 2
 * Beau-seant of Knights Templars  24
 * Beaver as a device  1, 30
 * Bede on flags  4
 * "Beehive of the Romish Church"  3
 * Bees of the Napoleons  106, 109
 * Belgium, flags of  23, 118
 * Bermuda, badge of  84
 * Berne, flag of  116
 * Beverley, flag of  5
 * Birkenhead, burning of the  64
 * Black and white flag of Prussia  98
 * Black as a flag colour  7, 24, 25
 * Black Swan, device of the  84
 * Blackwall line of shipping  74
 * Black Watch, the  62
 * Blenheim, battle of  64, 66
 * Blue blanket of Edinburgh  42
 * Blue ensign  40, 56, 73, 78, 83
 * Board of Trade, flag of the  71
 * Bohemia, flag of  102
 * Bolivia, flag of  23, 123
 * Bombardment of Scio  118
 * Boots and shoes on a flag  7
 * Bordered Jack  48, 58
 * Botetourte, banner of Sir John  11
 * Bourbon kings, the  107
 * Brabant, lion of  112
 * Brass of Sir John Daubernoun  18
 * Brazil, flag of  23, 24, 123
 * Brazil, pendant of  20
 * Bremen, flag of port of  99
 * Britannia, flag of the yacht  73
 * British East Africa, device of, 84
 * British Guiana, badge of  84
 * British North Borneo, badge of  84
 * Broad pendant  56
 * Brunswick, arms of  35
 * Brunswick, flag of  101
 * Buckles as device on flag  7
 * Bugle-horn as a device  15
 * Builder's square on flag  6
 * Bulgaria, flag of  121
 * Bunker's Hill, battle of  87
 * Bunting as material for flags  22
 * Burgee, variety of flag  19, 73
 * Burgundy, flag of  111, 112
 * Burning of rebel colours  70
 * Butler's "Lives of the Fathers"  39
 * Butterflies as a flag device  17


 * C.
 * Campbell on the national flag  54
 * Canada, Dominion of  10
 * Canada, flags of Dominion of  80
 * Canadian Pacific steamship line  75
 * Candlemakers' flag, the  7
 * Canterbury Cathedral, flags in  66
 * Cantonal colours  116
 * Cape of St. Martin  105
 * Cape St. Vincent, action off  41
 * Castle Line, house flag of the  75
 * Castle on flag as a device  111, 112
 * Cavalry standards  65
 * Cavers standard, the  43
 * Ceylon, device of the Colony of  84
 * Chapel of Royal College, Chelsea, flags in  3, 66
 * Chaucer, quotation from  12, 18
 * Cheering to order  102
 * Cherbourg, flag of port of  75
 * Chili, flag of  121
 * Chili, pendant of  20
 * Chinese flags  125
 * Chrysanthemum flag of Japan  124
 * Coastguard flag  134
 * Codes for flag-signalling  136
 * Coffee plant on flag  123
 * Coins, devices on  2, 88, 90, 120
 * Colombia, flag of United States of  122
 * Colonial Defence Act  78, 79, 80
 * Colonial flags  20, 40, 78
 * Colonies, value of  76, 77
 * Colour party  64
 * Colours, Queen's  61, 65, 67
 * Colours, regimental  61, 65, 67
 * Colours used in flags  23
 * Columbus, flag flown by  86, 111
 * Commodore's broad pendant  56
 * Commonwealth flags  48
 * Company or house flags  74, 75
 * Compasses as a device  6
 * Compass signals  136
 * Confederate States of America  27, 94, 95
 * Congo Free State, flag of  126
 * Conquest of Ireland  33
 * Consecrated banner  3, 103
 * Constantine, Labarum of  2, 3, 51
 * Consular flag  71
 * Consul-General, Russian, flag of  104
 * Cornet, variety of flag  19, 130
 * Costa Rica, flag of  122
 * Courtenay, banner of Sir Hugh de  11
 * Covenanter flags  24, 43, 91
 * Crescent as device  11, 15, 88, 95, 119, 120
 * Croatia, flag of  102
 * Cromwell, arms of  35
 * Cromwell, funeral of  19
 * Cross of St. Andrew  4, 35, 42, 43, 45, 53, 116
 * Cross of St. George  4, 10, 14, 16, 35, 39, 41, 45, 48, 53, 84, 87, 116
 * Cross of St. Patrick  4, 51, 53, 116
 * Crown of Charlemagne  35
 * Crowns of Ireland  33
 * Cuba, flag of  124
 * Culloden, battle of  70
 * Cunard Line, house flag of  74
 * Customs Department, flag of  71
 * Czarina, standard of the  102
 * Czar, standard of the  102, 103


 * D.
 * Dalmatia, flag of  102
 * Dannebrog, the  115
 * Demerara and Berbice Steamship Company  74
 * Denis, St., flag of  5
 * Denmark, flags of  115
 * Derivation of word flag  8
 * Desjardins on French flag  107
 * Devitt and Moore house flag  74
 * Diana, crescent of  119
 * Diplomatic Service, flag of  71
 * Dipping the flag  25
 * Dragon as a device  17, 125
 * Drayton, quotation from  15
 * Durham, St. Cuthbert of  5


 * E.
 * Eagle as a device  41, 91, 93, 94, 98, 101, 102, 105, 109, 110
 * Early Spanish flags  27
 * East Africa Company, German  100
 * East India Company, flag of  47, 89
 * East Kent Regiment, flags of  66
 * East Prussia, flag of  98
 * Ecclesiastical flags often pictorial  4
 * Ecuador, flag of  124
 * Eddystone Light flag signal  137
 * Edinburgh Cathedral, flags in  68
 * Edinburgh Trained Bands  42
 * Edmonson on flag usage  9
 * Edward the Confessor, arms of  34
 * Edward III., "King of the Seas"  25
 * Edward VI., funeral of  17
 * Egypt, ancient, standards of  2
 * Egyptian flags, modern  120, 121
 * Electoral bonnet  52
 * Elephant as a device  65, 84, 125
 * Elephant, order of the  115
 * Elizabeth, funeral of Queen  17
 * Elizabeth, thanksgiving service  3
 * Elsass, flag of  101
 * Emperor of Germany  98
 * Ensign  8
 * Ermine as a flag device  24
 * Errors in flag-making  58, 59, 60
 * Excise, flag of the  71
 * Eye as a device on flag  7


 * F.
 * Facings of the regiment  62
 * Falcon as a device  17
 * Favyn "Le Théâtre d'honneur"  4, 107
 * Fiji, badge of colony  84
 * Files represented on trade flag  7
 * Flag-book of the Admiralty  120
 * Flag-lore valuable  58
 * Flagons on trade flag  7
 * Flag-signalling  127, et seq.
 * Flanders, badge of  111
 * Flashing messages at night  134
 * Fleur-de-lys  21, 34, 36, 106, 108, 109, 112
 * Flodden, battle of  6
 * Florida, settlement of  86
 * Florin, arms on the  32
 * Fly of a flag, the  10
 * Fork and spoon on a flag  7
 * Four-flag signals  137
 * France, flags of  1, 21, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110
 * Franco-German War of 1870  97
 * Fribourg, flag of  116
 * Frogmorton, standard of  17
 * Funeral obsequies, flags at  6, 17, 18, 19, 22


 * G.
 * Garter, order of the  38
 * Gautier on the Swiss flag  116
 * Geneva Convention  117
 * Geneva, flag of  116
 * Geographical signals  137
 * George, St., cross of  4, 10, 14, 16, 35, 39, 41, 45, 48, 53, 84, 87, 116
 * George, St., of England  36, 37, 116
 * George, St., of Russia  102, 103
 * German Unity  97, 98
 * Germany, flags of  99, 100
 * Globe on flag  63, 87
 * Gnu as a flag device  84
 * Golden Legend, the  37
 * Gonfalon, kind of flag  8
 * Government, departments, flags of  71
 * Governor-General of Canada, flag of  81
 * Governors of Colonies, flags of  81, 84
 * Grandison, banner of Sir William de  11
 * Gray, quotation from  9
 * Greater Britain  77
 * Great Seal of Canada  83
 * Great Seal of Richard I.  30
 * Greece, flag of  119
 * Green and white of the Tudors  21
 * Green as a flag colour  23, 43, 113, 123
 * Greyhound as a device  17
 * Growth of the Italian State  113
 * Guards, flags of the  65
 * Guatemala, flag of  23, 122
 * Guidon, form of flag  21
 * Guild flags  6, 7
 * Guinea Company's flag  27


 * H.
 * Half-mast high, flags at  25
 * Hamburg, flag of city of  99
 * Hammer represented on flag  6, 7
 * Hand as a device  2
 * Hanover, arms of  29, 35, 52
 * Hanover, flag of  101
 * Hanseatic League, flag of  99
 * Harfleur, siege of  12
 * Harleian MS. on flags  16, 21
 * Harp of Ireland  4, 29, 32, 33, 34, 49, 54
 * Hayti, flag of  23, 124
 * Heavenly succour  37, 42, 44, 106, 115
 * Henry V., standard of  16
 * Henry VII., flags in chapel of  12
 * Heraldic Exhibition, Edinburgh  43
 * Heraldic requirements in flag devising  23, 54
 * Hesse, flag of  101
 * Highland tartans  1
 * "History and principles of Heraldry"  10
 * Hohenzollerns, arms of the  99
 * Hoisting one flag over another  25
 * Hoist of the flag, the  10
 * Holderton, banner of Sir John de  11
 * Holland, flags of  117, 118
 * Hong Kong, badge of colony of  84
 * Horse as a device  2
 * Horsham, political colours at  8
 * House flags  24, 74, 75
 * House of Orange, flag of  117
 * Hungary, flag of  23, 102


 * I.
 * Idolatrous emblem  87
 * Illiterate voters, mistakes of  7, 8
 * Imperial Eagle  66, 101, 102
 * Inscriptions on flags  3, 4, 13, 15, 16, 24, 35, 41, 43, 49, 66, 88, 90, 93, 122, 123
 * International signal code  133, 136, 137, 138
 * Investiture of knight-banneret  14
 * Invocation of saints  3
 * Ireland joined to Great Britain  32
 * Iron cross of Germany  100
 * Isandlwana, battle of  63, 69
 * Istria, flag of  102
 * Italy, flags of  23, 113, 114


 * J.
 * James II., statue of  35
 * Japan, flags of  124
 * Jerusalem, arms of city of  114, 115
 * Jewish standards  3
 * Joan of Arc, standard of  4
 * Jove, Eagle of  2


 * K.
 * Karlaverok, siege of  11, 18
 * Kasan, arms of province of  102
 * Katharine of Arragon flag-making  13
 * Kempenfeldt's signal code  130
 * Key as a device on flag  15
 * Khorsabad, slabs from  2
 * Kingdom of Hungary  101
 * King's Own Borderers  63
 * Kiow, arms of province of  102
 * Knights-banneret  14
 * Knights of the Bath, banners of  12
 * Knights of the Garter, banners of  12
 * Knights Templars, banner of the  24
 * Köbel, book on costume and flags  101
 * Korea, flag of kingdom of  125


 * L.
 * Labarum of Constantine  2, 3, 51
 * Labuan, badge of colony of  84
 * La Haye's book on flags  87
 * Lamartine on the red flag  109
 * Lancer pennon  14, 19
 * Landing of Charles II.  47
 * Land of the rising sun  124
 * Laurel wreath on flag  49, 81
 * Lawyers, flag of the  7
 * Leeward Isles, badge of the  84
 * Leon and Castile, arms of  86, 110, 111
 * Liberia, flag of  125
 * Liberty, figure of  94, 118
 * Lion of Scotland  4, 29, 31, 34
 * Lions of England  4, 29, 30, 34
 * Livery colours  7, 14, 17, 21
 * Livy on Vexillum  2
 * Lloyd's signal stations  139
 * Locksmiths, flag of the  7
 * London, port of, flag signal  137
 * London Trained Bands  41, 67
 * Lone Star State, flag of the  95
 * Lord Cardross, flag of  16
 * Lord High Admiral of England  72, 80
 * Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, flag of  71
 * Lord Mayor's Show, flags at  19, 20
 * Loss of colours at Edgehill  65
 * Lothringen, flag of  101
 * Louisiana, flag of State of  94
 * Louisiana, settlement of  86
 * Lozenges as a device on flag  41
 * Lubeck, flag of city of  99
 * Lucerne, flag of  116
 * Lunenburg, arms of  35
 * Lydgate, the duty of chivalry  12


 * M.
 * Maccabees, standard of the  3
 * Machyn, diary of  6, 17, 21, 39, 111
 * Mackay, extract from  57, 58
 * Mail service flag  72
 * Mainsail emblazoned as banner   12
 * Malplaquet, battle of  64
 * Man-of-war pendant  20, 78, 93, 110, 111, 121, 129, 135
 * Maple-leaf of Canada  30, 81
 * Marmion, quotation from  8, 18
 * Martin, description of Western Islands  1
 * Marseillaise, the  98
 * Marseilles, flag of port of  75
 * Martlets on flag  34
 * Massachusetts, flag of  3, 87
 * Mayflower, sailing of the  87
 * Mecklenburg-Strelitz, flag of  101
 * Mediæval spelling  6, 22
 * Mediterranean and New York Company  75
 * Merchant flag, red ensign  40, 47, 58, 73, 80
 * Merchant Shipping (Colours) Act  58
 * Metal-workers, flag of the  7
 * Meteorological signals  135
 * Mexico, flag of  23, 123
 * Milton, quotation from  8
 * Minotaur as a device  2
 * Minden, battle of  64
 * "Mirror for Magistrates," quotation from  15
 * Mohammedan flags often green  24
 * Monasteries, flags of  5
 * Monk, funeral of General  18, 22
 * Monogram, sacred, on flag  3, 42, 51
 * Monthermer, banner of Sir Ralph  11
 * Morse alphabet for signalling  127, 128, 129
 * Mottoes on flags  3, 4, 13, 15, 16, 24, 35, 41, 43, 49, 66, 88, 90, 93, 122, 123
 * Mutiny in the Royal Navy  25


 * N.
 * Napoleon, flags at tomb of  4
 * Nassau, arms of  29, 35
 * Natal, device of colony of  84
 * Naval Discipline Act  56
 * Naval Exhibition at Chelsea  41
 * Navy signalling  129, et seq.
 * Nelson, funeral of  18, 22
 * Neville's Cross, battle of  5
 * New Brunswick, arms of province of  82
 * Newfoundland, badge of colony of  83
 * New Granada, flag of  122
 * New Guinea, badge of colony of  84
 * New South Wales, badge of colony of  84
 * New Zealand, badge of  84
 * New Zealand Shipping Company  24, 75
 * Night signalling at sea  134
 * Nisbet on the tressure  32
 * Norie's "Flags of All Nations"  26
 * Northallerton, sacred flags at  5
 * North German Confederacy  99
 * Norway, flag of  115
 * Nova Scotia, arms of province of  82
 * Nova Scotia, settlement of  87
 * Novgorod, arms of province of  102


 * O.
 * Obsolete flags  8, 22, 26
 * Ontario, arms of province of  82
 * Orange flag  8
 * Orange Free State, flag of  23, 125
 * Order of Black Eagle  100
 * Ordnance Department flag  71
 * Orient Steam Navigation Company  24, 134
 * Oriflamme  105
 * Oudenarde, battle of  64
 * Owl of Athene  2


 * P.
 * Palmetto palm on flag  94, 95
 * Pamiot Azof, flag of the  104
 * Papal States, flag of the  23, 114, 115
 * Paraguay, flag of  122
 * Paris, arms of city of  109
 * Passion symbols on flag  6
 * Patrick, St., life of  51, 52
 * Pendant or pennant,  20, 40, 78, 93, 110, 111, 121, 129, 135
 * Peninsular and Oriental Company, flag of  74
 * Pennoncelle or pencel  19
 * Pennon, nature of the  14, 18, 19
 * Pepys, extract from diary of  55
 * Percy, banner of Sir Henri de  11
 * Percy lion  11, 15
 * Percy motto  15, 16
 * Percy standard  15
 * Persepolis, sculptures of  2
 * Peruvian flag  123
 * Pictorial flags  4
 * Pilgrim Fathers, the  87
 * Pilot flag  48, 100, 104, 134
 * Pine-apple as a device  84
 * Pine-tree flag  87, 88, 89
 * Plantagenet livery colours  21
 * Pliny on Roman standards  2
 * Poland, flag of  105
 * Political colours  7
 * Political devices on flags  4
 * Pomerania, flag of  101
 * Popham's signal code  131
 * Portcullis as a device  21
 * Portobello, capture of  41
 * Ports, flags of  75
 * Portugal, flags of  112, 113
 * Pottery, representation of flags on  89
 * Precedence a difficulty  28
 * Presentation of colours  3, 66
 * President, U.S.A., flag of  93, 94
 * Printed flags  23
 * Protectorate flag, the  50
 * Prussian eagle  98


 * Q.
 * Quarantine flag, the  25, 59
 * Quebec, arms of province of  82
 * Queen's colour  61, 65
 * Queensland, badge of colony of  83
 * Queen's Regulations  54, 55, 64, 71, 78, 81


 * R.
 * Ramilies, battle of  64
 * Rattlesnake flag  1, 13, 87, 88
 * Raven of the Danes  13
 * Rebel colors burnt  70
 * Red ensign  40, 47, 58, 73, 80
 * Red flag of revolution  25, 59, 109
 * Relics of saints worked into flag  5
 * Religious character of early flags  4, 5, 22
 * Religious service  3, 103
 * Revenue flag, U.S.A.  93
 * Rey on the French flag  107
 * Rhode Island, flag of  87
 * Richard II., standard of  17
 * Ridre, standard of Sir William de  11
 * Riga, flag of port of  75
 * Ripon, St. Wilfrid's banner at  5
 * Rolls of arms  10
 * Rome, standards of ancient  2, 42
 * Roses as a flag device  16, 21
 * Rotterdam, flag of port of  75
 * Rouen, capture of  5, 38, 112
 * Roumania, flag of  121
 * Royal Colonial Institute  76
 * Royal Horse Artillery of 1813  19
 * Royal Marines  63
 * Royal Naval Reserve  40, 56, 57, 73, 79, 139
 * Royal Navy, flag code of the  133
 * Royal Oak on coins  88
 * Royal Standard  11, 29, 34, 48, 54, 59, 78
 * Royal United Service Museum  24, 125, 130, 131
 * Royal Yacht Squadron, flag of the  72
 * Royston, political colours at  8
 * Russia, flags of  24, 102, 103, 104, 105
 * Russian American Company's flag  26


 * S.
 * Sacred monogram on flag  3
 * Salique law, operation of  36
 * Salmon as a flag device  82
 * Saluting the flag  26, 55, 56
 * San Salvador, flag of  124
 * Sarawak, flag of  125
 * Sardinia, flag of  26
 * Savoy, flag of  27, 113, 123
 * Saxe-Coburg Gotha, flag of  101
 * Saxony, arms of  35
 * Saxony, flag of  100
 * Schomburg-Lippe, flag of  101
 * School of Army Signalling  128
 * "Scotland for ever"  70
 * Scots Greys 66
 * Scottish grievance as to arms  31, 45, 46, 53
 * Scottish variation of Union flag  46
 * Scott, quotation from  8, 29
 * Servia, flag of  121
 * Seven Champions of Christendom, 38
 * Seventeenth Lancers  66
 * Shakespeare, quotation from  15, 37
 * Shannon and Chesapeake duel  90
 * Shears as a device on trade flag  7
 * Siam, flag of kingdom of  125
 * Signal-book of Chesapeake  133
 * Signalling by flags  20, 23, 127, et seq.
 * Simon de Montfort, banner of, 12
 * Skull and cross-bones device  66
 * Sledge flags of Arctic expedition  16
 * South Australia, badge of  83
 * South Carolina, flag of  87, 88, 94
 * Southern Cross  30, 80, 96
 * Sovereignty of the seas  25, 26
 * Spain, flags of  1, 24, 110, 111, 112
 * Spelling, mediæval liberty of  6, 22
 * Spenser, quotation from  36
 * Sphinx as a badge  62, 63
 * Spoon and fork on trade flag  7
 * Standard, nature of the  14
 * St. Andrew, cross of  4, 35, 42, 43, 45, 53, 116
 * Stars and bars, C.S.A.  95, 96
 * Stars and stripes, U.S.A.  59
 * St. Denis, flag of  105
 * Stewart on tartans  1
 * St. Gallen, flag of  116
 * St. George, cross of  4, 10, 14, 16, 35, 39, 41, 45, 48, 53, 84, 87, 116
 * St. Helena, badge of colony of  84
 * Storm signals by flags  135
 * "Story of Thebes," quotation from  12
 * St. Patrick, cross of  4, 51, 53, 116
 * Straits Settlement, device of  84
 * Streamer, variety of flag  20, 21
 * Strictly confidential signals  133
 * Stuart, livery colours of house of  21
 * Sun as a device  2, 17
 * Swallow-tail flag  14, 18, 93, 110, 115, 116, 130
 * Swan, black, of Western Australia  84
 * Sweden, flag of  115
 * Switzerland, flag of  116
 * Swynnerton, standard of Sir Thomas de  16
 * Sydney, Sir Philip, funeral of  18
 * Sidney, Sir Philip, on war  19
 * Symbols to express colours  74


 * T.
 * Tartans, Scottish  1
 * Tasmania, device of colony of  84
 * Telegraph Department, flag of  71
 * Tessin, flag of Canton  117
 * Teutonic, armament of the  57
 * Teutonic order, cross of the  100
 * Texas, flag of the State of  95
 * Texel, flag of the port of  75
 * "The late unpleasantness"  96
 * "Theorike and Practike of Modern Warres"  61
 * Third Dragoons  66
 * Thistle as a flag device  42, 82
 * Three-flag signals  137
 * Tiger of Korea  125
 * Titus, the arch of  2
 * Tobacco plant on flag  123
 * Torpedo practice flag  133
 * Trafalgar, Nelson's famous signal  132, 133
 * Trajan's column, standards on  2
 * Transport service, flag of the  71, 104
 * Transvaal, flag of the  126
 * Trefoils as a device  41
 * Tressure of Scotland, the  31, 32
 * Tricolor of France  40, 108
 * Trinidad, badge of colony of  84
 * Trinity, banner of the  5, 6
 * Trowel on guild flag  6
 * Trumpet banners  12, 20
 * Tudor flags  17
 * Tughra device, the  120, 121
 * Tunisian flags  120
 * Turkey, flags of  24, 119, 120
 * Twenty-fourth regiment  62
 * Tyrol, flag of the  102


 * U.
 * Union between England and Scotland 45
 * Union between Great Britain and Ireland 50, 52
 * Union flag  1, 4, 45, 47, 50, 54, 61
 * Union flag of Sweden and Norway, 116
 * Union Jack  47, 48
 * Union Steamship Company's flag  75
 * United Italy  113
 * United States of America, flag of  86, 89, 90, 91
 * Universal code for signalling  28
 * Urgency flag signals  136
 * Uri, flag of Canton of  116
 * Uruguay, flag of  122
 * Utilisation of liners as cruisers  57


 * V.
 * Valence, banner of Sir Aymer de  11
 * Valkyrie, flag of the yacht  73
 * Variation in size a sign of rank  17
 * Venezuela, flag of  23, 122, 123
 * Venice, obsolete flags of  27
 * Versailles, palace of  97
 * Vessels spoken at sea  139, 140
 * Viceroy of India, flag of  65, 81
 * Victoria Cross  63
 * Victoria, flag of colony of  80
 * Victualling Department, flag of  71
 * Virginia, settlement of  86
 * Virgin Mary on flag  6
 * Vocabulary signals  137
 * Voldermirz, arms of  102
 * Vowel flags objectionable  138, 139


 * W.
 * Waldeck, flag of  101
 * War cries  37
 * War songs  95, 98
 * Warriors' Chapel at Canterbury  66, 67
 * Washington, arms of  91, 93
 * "Watch upon the Rhine"  98
 * Waterloo, battle of  70
 * Weather signals  135, 137
 * Wellington, funeral of Duke of  18, 22
 * West Africa, device of  84
 * Western Australia, device of  84
 * Western Australia, governor's flag  81
 * West Prussia, flag of  98
 * White cross of France  107
 * White elephant of Siam  125
 * White ensign  40, 55, 59, 72
 * White horse of Hanover  63, 66
 * White horse of Kent  36
 * White Star Line, house flag of 57, 75
 * Why called "Jack"  48
 * William III., standard of  35
 * Wreath on flag  63, 66, 81
 * Wolf as a device  2
 * Wurtemburg, flag of  101


 * Y.
 * Yacht flags  100, 138
 * Yellow flag, its significance  24, 59
 * York, livery colours of house of  21